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Malaysia Invites Contractors to Prequalify for Pahang-Selangor Water Transfer Scheme

Malaysia Invites Contractors to Prequalify for Pahang-Selangor Water Transfer SchemeContractors have until 19th September, 2007 to prequalify for the construction of the first package, which is also ... More Information

Ministry of Infrastructure and City of Milan Sign Agreement for Metro Lines in Milan

Ministry of Infrastructure and City of Milan Sign Agreement for Metro Lines in MilanDuring a meeting on 31st July, 2007 between minister for infrastructure Antonio Di Pietro, mayor of Milan ... More Information

TBM Finish on A86 Tunnel in Paris

TBM Finish on A86 Tunnel in ParisTunnelling on the second, 5.5 km section of the A86 double-deck tunnel linking Pont Colbert in Jouy-en-Josas, south of Versailles, and the A13 motorway in Vaucresson ... More Information

Recent Infrastructure Projects Motivate Hunter Personnel (UK) to Look to Spain for Engineering Expertise

Recent Infrastructure Projects Motivate Hunter Personnel (UK) to Look to Spain for Engineering ExpertiseAs we all know over recent years Spain has been alive with infrastructure projects ranging ... More Information

Sika and Putzmeister Apply Efficient Shotcrete and Concrete at Schmuecke Tunnel

Sika and Putzmeister Apply Efficient Shotcrete and Concrete at Schmuecke TunnelThe two 1,720 m and 1,729 m-long tunnels are part of the new construction section of the A 71 motorway between ... More Information

Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Inaugurated in Hong Kong

Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Inaugurated in Hong KongThe Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) on 15th August, 2007 celebrated the commencement of service of Lok Ma Chau spur line of the East ... More Information

Mega Tunnel Projects: Myth or Reality?

Mega Tunnel Projects: Myth or Reality?At first view, mega tunnel projects seem science fiction, a theatre of dreams, with little connection to reality. And yet some of them are already in operation ... More Information

Kops II Hydro Nears Completion in Austria

Kops II Hydro Nears Completion in AustriaIn west Austria, construction of the new 450 MW Kops II pumped storage power plant by Vorarlberger Illwerke, the project owner, is nearing completion ... More Information

First Tunnel Section on Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway to Open in October in Singapore

First Tunnel Section on Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway to Open in October in SingaporeFrom 26th October, 2007, motorists will be able to move between the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) and the East ... More Information

Martin Knights - First 100 days as ITA President

Martin Knights - First 100 days as ITA PresidentJust three months since the ITA Congress in Prague, and Martin Knight's election to the presidency, and already two ad-hoc meetings with the ITA ... More Information

Innovative Chemistry in World's Longest Railway Tunnel

Innovative Chemistry in World's Longest Railway TunnelThe new edition of BASF's innovation podcast "Chemistry of Innovations" talks about the applications of construction chemicals in extreme ... More Information

UK Invites Consultants to Bid for Support to Planning, Design and Construction of Thames Tideway

UK Invites Consultants to Bid for Support to Planning, Design and Construction of Thames Tideway TunnelUnder pressure from the European Commission whose urban waste water directive requires that ... More Information

Lovat Receives Order for TBM in Spain

Lovat Receives Order for TBM in SpainLovat has signed a contract with a joint venture whose members are FCC, OHL and Copisa for the supply of a new Lovat RME270SE earth pressure balance tunnel ... More Information

Unique Application of Formwork for East Side CSO Tunnel Project in Portland

Unique Application of Formwork for East Side CSO Tunnel Project in PortlandIn Portland, Oregon, a major 20-year USD1.4 billion overhaul programme dedicated to cleaning up the city's Willamette River ... More Information

Italy and France Sign Joint Request for EU Funding for Lyon-Turin High Speed Link

Italy and France Sign Joint Request for EU Funding for Lyon-Turin High Speed LinkItaly and France have made on 16th July, 2007 a joint request for European financing for the Lyon-Turin high speed ... More Information

DLR Completes Tunnel Extension to Woolwich

DLR Completes Tunnel Extension to WoolwichThe tunnel extending the Dockland Light Railway (DLR) under the River Thames to Woolwich Arsenal in East London was completed on time on 23rd July, 2007 as ... More Information

Herrenknecht Appoints New North American Sales Manager

Herrenknecht Appoints New North American Sales ManagerHerrenknecht, the world renowned manufacturer of TBM, shield and mixshield tunnelling machines, microtunnelling systems, shaft sinking ... More Information

TBM Begins Boring Sierra de La Cabrera on Madrid-Valencia High Speed Line

TBM Begins Boring Sierra de La Cabrera on Madrid-Valencia High Speed LineTBM excavation of the longest tunnel has commenced on the future 914 km Madrid-Castilla La Mancha-Valencia-Murcia ... More Information

Atlas Copco Introduces New COP 2238 Rock Drill

Atlas Copco Introduces New COP 2238 Rock DrillAtlas Copco is introducing COP 2238, a new 22 kW hydraulic rock drill for the hole range 51-76 mm. The rock drill is intended for drifting and ... More Information

Overcoming Fault Zones at Bodio on Gotthard Base Tunnel

Overcoming Fault Zones at Bodio on Gotthard Base TunnelLot 452/554 between Bodio and Faido, in the south section of the Gotthard base tunnel, is built by consortium TAT, whose partners are Implenia, ... More Information

Lochkov Tunnel under Construction on Prague South Ring Road

Lochkov Tunnel under Construction on Prague South Ring RoadLot 514 Slivenec-Lahovice of the Prague ring road project is currently under construction. This 6,013 m project, which is located in ... More Information

Austrian and Italian Governments Sign in Vienna Memorandum on Brenner Base Tunnel

Austrian and Italian Governments Sign in Vienna Memorandum on Brenner Base TunnelAustrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, Italy's minister for infrastructure Antonio Di Pietro and the Austrian ... More Information

French-Swiss Cooperation to Build, Operate and Maintain a Cross-border Sewage Tunnel

French-Swiss Cooperation to Build, Operate and Maintain a Cross-border Sewage TunnelThe Canton and Republic of Geneva, Switzerland and the Community of municipalities of the Gex territory (CCPG) in ... More Information

Second Driverless Metro Line Opens in Toulouse

Second Driverless Metro Line Opens in ToulouseToulouse's second fully automatic metro line was inaugurated on Saturday 30th June, 2007 by Jean-Louis Borloo, France's minister for ecology, ... More Information

Record-breaking Robbins TBM Demolishes Rock at Kárahnjúkar

Record-breaking Robbins TBM Demolishes Rock at KárahnjúkarOn 25th June, 2007, a Robbins 7.23 m main beam TBM set its second world record in the 7 to 8 m size range while boring at ... More Information

Vedeggio-Cassarate Tunnel under Construction in Lugano, Switzerland

Vedeggio-Cassarate Tunnel under Construction in Lugano, SwitzerlandThe Vedeggio-Cassarate tunnel in Lugano, Switzerland is the first piece within Lugano’s transport plan. This big scheme ... More Information

Last Breakthrough at Grouft Tunnel in Luxembourg

Last Breakthrough at Grouft Tunnel in LuxembourgThe entrance of the Grouft rescue tunnel was holed through on 18th June, 2007 near the Lorentzweiler-Blaschette road, thus marking the last ... More Information

Work Finishes on Olympic Power Tunnel in London

Work Finishes on Olympic Power Tunnel in LondonConstruction of two tunnels to take power into the Olympic Park has been completed. Four Lovat TBMs dug the two 6 km-long bores, and despite a delay to ... More Information

Betuwe Line Starts Operating between the Netherlands and Germany

Betuwe Line Starts Operating between the Netherlands and GermanyQueen Beatrix of the Netherlands opened the Betuwe line on 16th June, 2007 at Barendrecht station where, besides the Betuwe line, four ... More Information

Preparatory Works at Allegheny River Tunnel in Pittsburgh Awaiting TBM Arrival in August

Preparatory Works at Allegheny River Tunnel in Pittsburgh Awaiting TBM Arrival in AugustThe work to prepare for Pittsburgh's first underwater tunnels is marching forward on schedule. Excavators, ... More Information

First Section of Pajares Tunnel is Completed

First Section of Pajares Tunnel is CompletedOf the five machines used to bore the Pajares high speed rail tunnels in Spain, the NFM Technologies 9.88 m-diameter hard rock tunnel boring machine ... More Information

First, West Mont Sion Tunnel Breaks Through in France

First, West Mont Sion Tunnel Breaks Through in FranceAfter eight months of tunnelling under the Mont Sion, Herrenknecht’s TBM dubbed ‘Adelaide’ has emerged to light on 12th June, 2007 at ... More Information

Loetschberg Base Tunnel Officially Opens

Loetschberg Base Tunnel Officially OpensThe Loetschberg rail tunnel has been officially opened by Swiss transport minister Moritz Leuenberger on 15th June, 2007. Leuenberger and other ... More Information

First LIRR's East Side Access TBM Arrived in NYC

First LIRR's East Side Access TBM Arrived in NYCLong Island Rail Road's East Side access project includes two new tunnels under Manhattan and Queens to connect with the existing 63rd Street tunnel ... More Information

Capilano-Seymour Water Project in Progress in Vancouver

Capilano-Seymour Water Project in Progress in VancouverWater from the Capilano reservoir will be pumped through a 3.8 m-diameter tunnel to the filtration plant in the Lower Seymour Conservation ... More Information

World's Biggest TBMs at Work at Yangtze Tunnel in China

World's Biggest TBMs at Work at Yangtze Tunnel in ChinaThe People's Republic of China is one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world. With its unprecedented growth, the country ... More Information

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Hudson Tunnel Project marks major 2026 construction progress on both sides of the river

Work on the Hudson Tunnel Project in North Bergen is continuing to advance through several major construction steps reached so far this year... More Information

HS2 Ordered to Slash Costs and Construction Time in Major Government Reset

The Transport Secretary has instructed HS2 Ltd to identify options that could cut billions from the project’s cost and bring trains into service sooner, as the government pushes for a ... More Information

SRL East TBMs arrive in Burwood

Two more tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have arrived in Melbourne ready for tunnelling of Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East to start this year. The TBMs ... More Information

$100 Million Allocated for Ft. Laramie Canal Tunnel Project

Laramie Canal Tunnel Project. The Department of the Interior announced the funding Tuesday as part of the $889 million for water infrastructure ... More Information

What are the benefits of using tunnel boring machines in infrastructure projects?

Ask NCE has been updated to Answers 3.0, allowing you to ask civil engineering-focused questions and receive clear, practical responses such as ... More Information

Minsk Metro, together with "Alesya," will start digging with "Mariya."

It was noted on a transport forum that parts of a second tunnel boring machine (TBM) for laying tunnels began to be brought to one of the construction sites of the third metro line... More Information

TBM for Lyon-Turin project unveiled

The first of two tunnel boring machines for the Italian section of the 57.5km Mont Cenis Base Tunnel has been unveiled... More Information

NFR achieves breakthrough in Tunnel No 8 of Sivok–Rangpo railway project

Tunnel No. 8 is one of the major tunnels of the project with a total length of 4.148 km and an additional adit measuring 1.010 km. The excavation and ... More Information

Suburban Rail Loop hits tunnelling milestone as eight TBMs arrive on site

The Suburban Rail Loop has reached a major construction milestone, with eight tunnel boring machines now on site ahead of tunnelling later this year... More Information

$16bn Hudson Tunnel project could pause again 'in two to three months'

Components of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will be used for the Palisades Tunnel Project arrived at ... More Information

Hinkley Point C | TBM readied for 620m long fish return tunnel

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will excavate the fish return tunnel has been christened Sarah Guppy by local schoolchildren, in tribute to ... More Information

Bhopal Metro's Orange Line Tunnelling Begins

The Bhopal Metro project has recently reached an important milestone as tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have been positioned to begin digging work on ... More Information

A Chinese team rescued a $50M tunnel machine stuck 177 feet underground

Chinese engineers have pulled off a stunning rescue, saving a tunnel boring machine (TBM) stuck 177 feet underground beneath the Yangtze River. More Information

Fort Smith named finalist in Elon Musk's Boring Company tunnel challenge

The company selected Fort Smith's proposal from 487 applicants. The company says the winning project will receive construction of a one-mile tunnel ... More Information

Bengaluru: Four infrastructure firms bid for Hebbal short tunnel

Bengaluru infrastructure: Four firms, including Dilip Buildcon and Max Infra, bid for BDA's Rs 1086 crore Hebbal short tunnel project... More Information

TBM readied for Montreal's Blue Line extension

A custom-made 9.7m-diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been assembled and lowered ready to excavate the tube from the future Vertières stop to ... More Information

$11.5B Brenner Base Tunnel Nears End of TBM Excavation

With TBMs Olga and Wilma closing in, the 55-km rail project shifts from excavation to systems integration ahead of its planned 2028 opening beneath ... More Information

$6.75 Billion Unlocked for Turkey's Bosphorus Rail Project

Multiple Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will need to be mobilized to carve out the subterranean corridors leading up to ... More Information

Tunneling for Nashville's underground Tesla project has begun

The Boring Company said that the first three weeks of the project will consist of the Prufrock-MB1, a machine that will help carve out the tunnel, ... More Information

Hudson Tunnel Project construction resumes

I look forward to celebrating the launch of our tunnel boring machines through the Palisades once GDC has assurance it will receive the steady flow ... More Information

Lower Thames Crossing

British suppliers could meet 90% of low carbon steel requirements. The proposed machine would be 16.4m in diameter, large enough to create a three‑lane tunnel bore, and is intended to dig ... More Information

Inside the Tunnel Boring Machine, Southampton Link Main project

A six-tonne tunnel boring machine is digging deep below the ground in Hampshire to help keep the county's taps and rivers flowing... More Information

TBM maestro inspects sites ahead of massive tunnel drive

The first machine components have arrived for the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to be deployed on the Suburban Connect sites in Melbourne. More Information

Metrolinx provides major updates on subway and LRT projects across the GTA

Tunnel boring is advancing on multiple projects, with Scarborough's TBM ... Metrolinx says “Diggy Scardust,” the project's tunnel boring machine, is now ... More Information

Work in Progress: High-tech TBMs ready to carve underground corridor

The Bhopal Metro Rail Project is transitioning into its most challenging and sophisticated phase as two state-of-the-art Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) ... More Information

Sarens helps extract TBM at BC water supply project

The Annacis Water Supply Tunnel Project aims to increase the reliability and capacity of the water supply system in New Westminster, British Columbia. When complete, the tunnel will ... More Information

Judge rules in favor of New York and New Jersey for now in $16B tunnel fight with Trump

A federal judge ruled Friday to temporarily block the Trump administration from suspending federal disbursements for the Gateway Tunnel Project... More Information

Webuild: award for Sustainability Report for commitment to decarbonise through innovation

This includes the large tunnel-boring machines deployed on some of Europe's most complex projects: from the Salerno-Reggio Calabria ... More Information

Clearwater update reports initial entry area is 'stable and intact'

The tunnel boring machine being used in the project remains trapped underground just ahead of where the breach occurred. The ambitious, $630 ... More Information

Tunnel Boring Machine Market Size estimated at USD 7.08 Billion

The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) market is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing urbanization, infrastructure development, ... More Information

Completing the First Section of Line 3: Tunnel Boring Machine Roars as it Emerges at Balboa

The Panama tunnel boring machine emerged and completed its first major task: the first section of the Line 3 Metro tunnel. More Information

Twin tunnel-boring titans prepare to dig new road under Sydney Harbour

Twin tunnel-boring titans are preparing to launch under Sydney Harbour to dig out a new road crossing from Birchgrove to Waverton... More Information

Monica Breaks Ground on Snowy 2.0

Monica the tunnel boring machine, with the renewable energy mega-project now more. TBM Monica is among the world's most advanced tunnel boring machines... More Information

Snowy 2.0 sets new tunnel boring machine to work, completes 46 underground concrete pours

Snowy 2.0 has set to work a fourth tunnel boring machine, a $75 million piece of drilling equipment purpose built to complete excavation of the huge pumped hydro project’s “geologically ... More Information

World's 'largest' underground assembly of tunnelling machines happening beneath Sydney

Workers are craning into place about 167 major pieces that will form the first of two giant boring machines. Once assembled like giant Meccano sets, ... More Information

Tunneling Begins on Major Water Pipeline for South Hillsborough

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Water has begun construction on a major underground pipeline project aimed at meeting rising water demand in southern Hillsborough County, where population growth ... More Information

The massive £3billion tunnel designed to connect two continents under the sea

The construction of a huge underwater multi-tiered tunnel is underway in Turkey, that will create a direct route from Asia to Europe - and is expected to carry 1.3 million passengers a ... More Information

Riederwald Tunnel in Frankfurt is further delayed

Traffic was supposed to start flowing through the controversial Riederwald Tunnel in Frankfurt in 2033. But that's unlikely to happen. The €1.5 billion project is facing further delays – ... More Information

What happens to our metro tunnel boring machines when they hit the end of the line?

These mechanical behemoths were Betty and Dorothy, the tunnel boring machines tasked with digging the Sydney Metro West tunnels. Loading. The ... More Information